Diego Luna Quotes

I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

Diego Luna

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Team
  • Never
  • Give

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • American
  • Mother
  • Justice

• It's getting worse under Prime Minister Modi. The economic miracle has failed, to a degree, and people are reaching back to a kind of imagined Hindu past for a feeling of pride. And that feeling of pride necessarily comes from denying any kind of Muslim heritage. People my age seem to be becoming illiberal in a way that I'm surprised by.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Age
  • Past

• Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • Up
  • Energy

• I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Home
  • Best

• I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Guy
  • Hand
  • Write

• It gets slightly daunting if you're watching the telly and everybody's gorgeous. It's just so rubbish. And I'm grateful that it's not so much anymore - it's great to see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Great
  • See
  • Grateful

• I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Environment
  • Difficult
  • Meet

• What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Black

• I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Cat

• If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Up
  • Time

• There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them. I think that Americans should gradually begin to adopt positive behavior rather than doing evil. They should not expect an immediate reaction in return for their positive measures. It will take time.

  

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
  • Time
  • World
  • America

• As, not only as an entertainer but as a person who who cared a lot and I gave the best that I could and I tried to be the best role model that I possibly could and the best person I could I tried to help.

  

  Selena
  • Help
  • Model

• N.E.R.D. was also from - not too far from where I was from growing up. For a lot of people who make music, that was a huge influence in teen years.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• Just because the only way you can maintain control over your bodily passions is to sit straight in your chair, knees together, hands delicately arranged in our lap, fingers tightly intertwined, does not mean that I am required to do the same.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Together
  • Control

• The reason the art world doesn't respond to Kinkade is because none - not one - of his ideas about subject-matter, surface, color, composition, touch, scale, form, or skill is remotely original. They're all cliche and already told.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Art
  • Color

• Just like the moon, I'll step aside, and let your sun shine while I follow behind...

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Sun
  • Moon
  • Shine

• Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

  

  Aaron Zigman
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Concert

• I don't make films for myself; I make them in order to communicate with an audience.

  

  Diego Luna